It was the night before opening day...

And all through the house fisher persons were busy arranging their gear. Me in my vest and Ma in her kerchief just laid out our head  for an early spring nap. When all suddenly arose at the crack of dawn, an army of guys rushing to the river to be first at the wing dam at E. Sleeping with your waders on, poles strung up in the cars, they drove like maniacs to be first at the recent stocked trout.

With apologies to Clement Moore, my view of the opening day scramble. Some of you will try to set records for the number of stocked fish, certainly no large or hardest fish yet. Please handle the resource carefully; pinch down the barbs, use care handling the fish, if possible don't handle them, give up the pool after catching a reasonable amount and remember social distancing at least casting distance between anglers.

Permits are only being sold online, if you already have an account, season only, no daily yet. In my opinion this should have been done a long time ago, finally the park has entered the digital age. Good luck and play nice...